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MSc Thesis AMS Institute - Resilience By Renovation: Opportunities for nature-based climate change resilience alongside the renovation of Amsterdam’s quay wall waterfronts

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Quay walls are waterfront structures that have important functions. These functions include providing stable land for the construction of buildings, roads, and the safe movement of people on land. On the waterside, quay walls are needed for containing surface water networks, flood management, and transportation functions. Quay walls are therefore an essential infrastructure in waterfront cities with river and canal networks such as Amsterdam, capital city of the Netherlands. The ongoing renovation of 200 kilometres of Amsterdam’s quay walls is an example of how age and other urban processes combine, creating a resource intensive challenge for cities to address.
The results of this thesis show that the renovation of Amsterdam’s quay wall waterfront spaces can be a vehicle for implementing a city-wide climate adaptation programme that serves two long term objectives: making the city more resilient to climate change, and extending the service lifetime of walls already built in the city.

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Author: Noelle Teh

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